Title: The Power of Gratitude
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The father said to his servants, Take out the best clothes, put them on, put the ring finger on your hand, and put on sandals on your feet. And bring and slaughter the fattened calf, and let us eat and rejoice. This my son was dead and is alive again; I was lost and is found again, and they rejoiced. When the eldest son returned from the field and came near the house, when he heard the sound of wind and dancing, he called a servant and asked him what was going on. I have captured him.” But he was angry and refused to go in. But his father came out and urged him, and he answered and said to him, “I have served you for many years, and I have not disobeyed your orders, but I have never given myself a young goat to have fun with me and my friends.” This son, who devoured his livelihood with prostitutes, has returned, and for this he has slaughtered a fattened calf. The father said, "Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours; but this thy brother died and is alive, and we should rejoice and rejoice, because I was lost and found." (Luke 15:22-32)
Today, we are sincerely grateful that students and professors from all schools gathered to give thanks to God at this academy located at the eastern shore of Baegundae in the evening under a clear autumn sky. The tragedy of Barley Pass, where our farmers had to dig up the grass roots once a year for 4,000 years and peel the bark to pass through, is now a thing of the past. offers a service of thanksgiving. The autumn festival is a festival of thanksgiving. Therefore, let's find a lesson to be thankful for in this Bible verse and think about the grace to be thankful for together.
First, this Bible is the famous parable of the prodigal son, and when the prodigal son returned home, his father held a feast to say that he had found his lost child. The prodigal son found his lost parents, and the parents found their lost children. The joy of regaining health by a person who has lost health and the joy of regaining lost wealth. Christianity is a religion that gives thanks and thrills for finding what was lost. It is the gratitude and emotion of finding the lost country back, so kiss the mountains and streams of my land and give thanks. What have you lost? This Bible speaks of the thrill of man who lost himself and found himself again. When human beings realize that they are children of their parents, they cannot fail to filial piety, and when they realize that they are created by God, they cannot but respect God.
No one is as happy as the people who have God as their Father. Humans are originally children of God, but they lost God because they did not want to live under God's interference. Respecting and worshiping God as the Father is a religious event that one believes in Christianity, and it is not okay to not do it, but it is a human duty and responsibility that must be done as long as we are aware that we are human. And it is not a heavy burden for humans to worship God as their Father, but it is a very grateful and grateful thing. Sons and daughters without parents, no matter how ignorant and ignorant they are, cannot express their desire to serve their father and mother.
I recommend that many students know that it is the greatest blessing to be able to worship and learn God at this academy. I am sure that you will be grateful for the rest of your life for studying in a school that worships God. Human beings who have found God as their father have found human beings and themselves, and finding themselves and God rightly means that they have found that their neighbors are not others, but brothers and sisters. So, to seek God as the Father is to discover that mankind is a brother, and to find the highest position of man, that man is the master rather than a part of nature or machinery in the world created by God. What could be more grateful than this?
Second, then, does a person who has nothing to lose have no condition to be thankful for? The answer is well expressed in the words of a father to his eldest son in this Bible. To the complaining eldest son, "All that is mine is yours, so why are you complaining?" Why can't you be grateful for what you already have so that you don't lack? is the word. People don't know how to appreciate what they don't lose, what they already have. Christianity is the religion that makes this known. People don't get any gratitude or appreciation for the fact that their bodies are healthy. Young people are not grateful for the fact that they have good and benevolent parents. Students are not grateful for the blessing of having a talented and wonderful teacher and being taught by him.
I heard from my daughter, who had been a teacher at a rural high school for some time, that at a rural high school in Gangwon-do, if one teacher left, the subject would normally end with little or no learning during the semester or school year. I can't really appreciate how grateful I am to go to high school in Seoul. I have been in England for half a year and have seen only four sunny days like this from morning to evening. But sometimes when the weather is cloudy on our way, we curse it as "this damn weather." I have traveled to Africa. The coolest time was the temperature of the hottest summer in Korea. He also said that he would not be able to live in the heat of about a month a year. A year is almost half a year, and how many people live in ice and snow, but when it's cold, it's too cold to live. The conditions of nature that we already have, the health, home, and educational environment that we have are only things to be grateful for, and there are only conditions to be grateful for.
We live in a world where you can see the fashions of London and Paris in the second half of the 20th century on TV and touch stones brought from the moon. We are living in the most splendid era in the long history of mankind. In the past, in the era of scholars who could only see the past by walking for a long week in the mountains of Chungcheong-do to Seoul, we are now living in an era where you can sit down and come to Seoul in two or three hours, and in an era in which some people circle the earth several times. is. We should be grateful for the grace we already have. If you wake up in the morning or evening, you should thank this grace and sing a song of praise. If you do not know how to appreciate the blessings and graces you have received, so if you resent them rather than resent them, the blessings and graces are withdrawn, and you are given the conditions of resentment and complaints instead.
According to the autobiography of Dr. Wiseman, Israel's first president, he was a Jewish boy who carried a can and ate it until he was 16, an ignorant boy who had never even learned to spell. However, he was a chemist who won the great Nobel Prize, made many contributions as the director of the British Defense Research Institute during World War II, and participated in the national independence movement and became the first president. He wrote that the hardships he suffered at a young age than what he had learned made his life brighter. Now, everyone, I hope that your future will always be as clear and clean as the autumn sky and happy. However, at some point, the God of Destiny may bring a storm of hard trials before you, or make you fall into a pit of trials that you cannot solve on your own. However, at that time, everyone, one thing you must remember is, "Oh! This will be God's will for me to create a more brilliant life in my life" and I hope you will go through the jungle of suffering. And never be pessimistic or discouraged, but face it with joy.